According to the writer and editor who approved th[is] summary, “An explosion at a nuclear power plant on Japan’s devastated…

“According to the writer and editor who approved th[is] summary, “An explosion at a nuclear power plant on Japan’s devastated coast … made leaking radiation, or even outright meltdown, the central threat menacing a nation.” Apparently aftershocks, fires, broken dams, washed out highways, lack of clean drinking water, damaged sewer systems, destroyed airports, and at least a thousand known fatalities are not as much of a threat to the nation of Japan as the possibility that a few people might be exposed to a radiation dose that is roughly equivalent to the ones administered every day as part of routine medical procedures.”

–http://atomicinsights.blogspot.com/2011/03/sowing-calm-in-face-of-focused-campaign.html